The Life of Muhammad

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The Life of
Muhammad
The Greatest Liberator
The Holiest Prophet

تيزيلجنلاا تغللاب )ص(دمحم انديس مركلأا يِّ بنلا ةايح
Author: Allama Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi
Translator: Abdullah al-Shahin
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications
First Edition 1428-2007-1386
Quds Press
Quantity: 2000
Number of Pages: 576
Size: 162 x 229
ISBN: 978-964-438-867-5
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The Life of Muhammad (saws) - Allama Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi (rh)
In the name of Allah ................................................................................................................................. 19
Dedication .................................................................................................................................................. 20
The Publisher’s Preface ............................................................................................................................ 21
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 22
Mecca the honored town .......................................................................................................................... 30
Other names of Mecca ............................................................................................................................ 30
1. Ummol Qura (mother of villages) ................................................................................................... 30
2. Al-Balad al-Ameen (the safe country) ............................................................................................ 30
3. Becca ............................................................................................................................................... 30
Its locality ............................................................................................................................................... 31
Mecca is the most beloved place to the Prophet ..................................................................................... 32
The Prophet glorifies the Kaaba.............................................................................................................. 32
The Prophet puts the Rock in its place .................................................................................................... 33
The first who lived in Mecca .................................................................................................................. 33
The cultural life ....................................................................................................................................... 34
Dar an-Nadwa ..................................................................................................................................... 34
Hilf al-Fudhool (alliance of virtues) ................................................................................................... 35
The religious life ..................................................................................................................................... 35
Who denied the idols .............................................................................................................................. 35
1. Umru’ ul-Qayss ............................................................................................................................... 36
2. Ghawi bin Abdul Uzza .................................................................................................................... 36
3. Zayd bin Umar ................................................................................................................................ 36
4. A nomad man .................................................................................................................................. 36
5. Khuza’a bin Abd ............................................................................................................................. 37
6. Abdurrahman .................................................................................................................................. 37
The belief of the Hashemites .................................................................................................................. 37
The Prophet destroys the idols ................................................................................................................ 37
The economic life ................................................................................................................................... 38
The social life .......................................................................................................................................... 39
The Hashemites ................................................................................................................................... 39
The Umayyads .................................................................................................................................... 40
Great personalities and glories ................................................................................................................ 41
Hashim .................................................................................................................................................... 41
Abdul Muttalib ........................................................................................................................................ 42
Abdul Muttalib’s faith ......................................................................................................................... 42
Entrusting the hospitality of the pilgrims to him ................................................................................ 43
Restoring the well of Zamzam ............................................................................................................ 43
Abdul Muttalib’s vision ...................................................................................................................... 44
Abdul Muttalib’s vow ......................................................................................................................... 45
His care for the Prophet ...................................................................................................................... 46
Towards the High Companion ............................................................................................................ 47
Fatherhood, motherhood, and a shine .................................................................................................... 47
The father: Abdullah ............................................................................................................................... 47
To the heavens .................................................................................................................................... 48
The mother: Aaminah ............................................................................................................................. 48
Aaminah’s vision ................................................................................................................................ 49
The shining of light ............................................................................................................................. 49
His name ................................................................................................................................................. 50
Signs and miracles .................................................................................................................................. 51
The Jews’ fear ......................................................................................................................................... 51
His wet-nurses ......................................................................................................................................... 51
A rejected narration ............................................................................................................................. 54
His nursemaid ..................................................................................................................................... 54
The death of Aaminah ............................................................................................................................. 54
A rejected narration ............................................................................................................................. 55
Abdul Muttalib’s death ........................................................................................................................... 56
Under Abu Talib’s care ........................................................................................................................... 56
The care of Abu Talib’s wife to Muhammad ...................................................................................... 57
With his uncle to Sham ........................................................................................................................... 58
With a priest ........................................................................................................................................ 58
The battle of al-Fijar ............................................................................................................................... 60
Grazing of sheep ..................................................................................................................................... 60
Disdaining from playing ......................................................................................................................... 60
Placing the Black Rock in its place ......................................................................................................... 61
Trading with the capitals of Khadijah ..................................................................................................... 61
His marriage to Khadijah ........................................................................................................................ 62
The Prophet adopts Ali ........................................................................................................................... 63
His characteristics ..................................................................................................................................... 65
Willpower ............................................................................................................................................... 65
High morality .......................................................................................................................................... 66
A word by Imam Ali ............................................................................................................................... 67
Forbearance ............................................................................................................................................. 68
Generosity ............................................................................................................................................... 71
Modesty .................................................................................................................................................. 73
Asceticism ............................................................................................................................................... 74
Turning to Allah ...................................................................................................................................... 75
His prayer ................................................................................................................................................ 76
a. assigning the time of prayer ............................................................................................................ 76
b. the caller (mu’azzin) ....................................................................................................................... 76
c. His care for congregational prayer .................................................................................................. 76
d. Regulating the rows of Muslims ..................................................................................................... 77
e. His much praying ............................................................................................................................ 77
f. His weeping in his prayers ............................................................................................................... 77
Coyness ................................................................................................................................................... 78
Remembrance of Allah ........................................................................................................................... 79
His weeps when certain verses are recited before him ........................................................................... 79
Compassion and mercifulness ................................................................................................................. 80
Loyalty .................................................................................................................................................... 81
Courage ................................................................................................................................................... 82
The love to the poor ................................................................................................................................ 83
Disdaining of haughtiness ....................................................................................................................... 83
Patience ................................................................................................................................................... 83
Justice ...................................................................................................................................................... 84
Cleanness ................................................................................................................................................ 84
His fondness of perfumes ........................................................................................................................ 85
Sense of humor ....................................................................................................................................... 85
Eloquence and rhetoric ........................................................................................................................... 86
Gravity .................................................................................................................................................... 87
Prudent policy ......................................................................................................................................... 88
In the cave of Hara’ .................................................................................................................................. 89
The revelation ......................................................................................................................................... 89
With Khadijah ......................................................................................................................................... 90
Khadijah and Ali’s faith .......................................................................................................................... 91
The Prophet’s prayer in the Kaaba .......................................................................................................... 92
Circumambulating the Kaaba ................................................................................................................. 92
Secret invitation ...................................................................................................................................... 93
Publicity of the mission ............................................................................................................................. 95
Worry of Quraysh ................................................................................................................................... 96
Severe procedures ................................................................................................................................... 96
Mocking .................................................................................................................................................. 96
Inciting the children to harm the Prophet ................................................................................................ 96
Accusing the Prophet of madness ........................................................................................................... 97
1. Al-Waleed bin al-Mughirah ............................................................................................................ 97
2. Al-Aas bin Wa’il ............................................................................................................................. 97
3. Al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth ........................................................................................................... 97
4. Al-Harith ......................................................................................................................................... 98
5. Al-Aswad bin al-Harith ................................................................................................................... 98
1. Abu Jahl .......................................................................................................................................... 98
2. Abu Lahab (the Prophet’s uncle) .................................................................................................... 99
3. Uqbah bin Abi Ma’eet................................................................................................................... 100
4. Al-Hakam bin Abil-Aas ................................................................................................................ 100
5. Umayyah bin Khalaf ..................................................................................................................... 100
Accusing the Prophet of magic ............................................................................................................. 100
Preventing praisers from coming to him ............................................................................................... 100
Preventing people from embracing Islam ............................................................................................. 101
Persecuting the believers ....................................................................................................................... 102
The Prophet asks Muslims to be steadfast ............................................................................................ 103
Abu Talib protects the Prophet ............................................................................................................. 104
Abu Talib orders Ja’far to follow the Prophet ...................................................................................... 106
Abu Talib invites an-Najashi to Islam .................................................................................................. 107
Hamza becomes a Muslim .................................................................................................................... 107
The first emigration to Abyssinia.......................................................................................................... 108
The second emigration of Muslims ....................................................................................................... 111
Umar turns a Muslim ............................................................................................................................ 112
Quraysh negotiates with the Prophet .................................................................................................... 113
As-Sahifah (document) ......................................................................................................................... 115
In the Shi’b (defile) of Abu Talib ......................................................................................................... 116
The Prophet and the tribes .................................................................................................................... 117
The Prophet’s supplication ................................................................................................................... 118
The Night Journey and the Ascension .................................................................................................. 119
The Ascension ....................................................................................................................................... 121
With the Exalted Creator ...................................................................................................................... 121
The goals of the Ascension ................................................................................................................... 122
The influence of the Ascension in Mecca ............................................................................................. 122
The Ascension: spiritual or bodily? ...................................................................................................... 123
Arguments ............................................................................................................................................. 124
Farid Wajdi’s opinion ........................................................................................................................... 125
The year of sorrow: Abu Talib’s death ................................................................................................. 127
Abu Talib’s will .................................................................................................................................... 128
To immortality ...................................................................................................................................... 128
Khadijah’s death ................................................................................................................................... 129
The gifts of Allah on her ....................................................................................................................... 131
To the Paradise ...................................................................................................................................... 131
The first homage of al-Aqabah ............................................................................................................. 132
Sending Mus’ab a deputy to Medina .................................................................................................... 133
The second homage of al-Aqabah ......................................................................................................... 133
The Prophet meets with the Ansar ........................................................................................................ 134
Fear of Quraysh..................................................................................................................................... 136
Muslims’ emigration to Medina ............................................................................................................ 137
The Muhajireen in the hospitality of the Ansar .................................................................................... 138
The method of the mission in Mecca .................................................................................................... 138
1. Wisdom and good preaching ......................................................................................................... 138
2. Good saying .................................................................................................................................. 139
3. Leniency and mercy ...................................................................................................................... 139
4. Repelling evil with what is best .................................................................................................... 139
5. Patience ......................................................................................................................................... 139
6. Warning the unbelievers against Allah’s punishment ................................................................... 140
7. Giving good tidings to the believers to be in the Paradise ............................................................ 140
The invitation to Allah .......................................................................................................................... 140
The existence of Allah .......................................................................................................................... 141
The oneness of Allah ............................................................................................................................ 142
The power of Allah ............................................................................................................................... 143
The knowledge of Allah ........................................................................................................................ 143
The legislation of wudu’ and prayer ..................................................................................................... 144
The kiblah ............................................................................................................................................. 144
The Prophet’s miracles in Mecca .......................................................................................................... 145
1. The Holy Qur'an ............................................................................................................................ 145
2. The miracle of the Tree ................................................................................................................. 146
3. The split of the moon .................................................................................................................... 147
The Meccan Suras ................................................................................................................................. 148
The Prophet’s emigration to Yathrib .................................................................................................... 149
Worry of Quraysh ................................................................................................................................. 149
The Prophet leaves Mecca .................................................................................................................... 150
Imam Ali sleeps in the Prophet’s bed ................................................................................................... 151
The Prophet with Suraqah ......................................................................................................................... 152
Yathrib receives the Prophet ................................................................................................................. 154
The population of Yathrib ..................................................................................................................... 155
Friday Prayer ......................................................................................................................................... 156
The building of the mosque .................................................................................................................. 157
The Prophet’s achievements in Medina ................................................................................................ 157
Brotherhood among Muslims............................................................................................................ 158
Building the Islamic civilization ....................................................................................................... 158
Liberation of woman ......................................................................................................................... 158
Equality ............................................................................................................................................. 159
1. Social equality ............................................................................................................................... 160
2. Equality before the law ................................................................................................................. 161
3. Equality in taxes ............................................................................................................................ 163
4. Equality in employment ................................................................................................................ 163
Individual responsibility ....................................................................................................................... 163
Annulling the racial segregation ........................................................................................................... 163
The Islamic brotherhood ....................................................................................................................... 164
1. Mercifulness and sympathy .......................................................................................................... 165
2. The spread of greeting................................................................................................................... 165
3. Mutual visiting .............................................................................................................................. 165
4. Satisfying the needs of people ...................................................................................................... 166
5. Helping a Muslim ......................................................................................................................... 166
Factors of separation ............................................................................................................................. 167
1. Mocking and insulting each other ................................................................................................. 167
2. Backbiting ..................................................................................................................................... 167
3. Talebearing ................................................................................................................................... 168
4. Irrelation ........................................................................................................................................ 168
5. Non-cooperation ........................................................................................................................... 169
6. Harming and insulting ................................................................................................................... 169
7. Frightening and terrorizing ........................................................................................................... 170
8. Revilement .................................................................................................................................... 170
9. Watching of others’ slips and defects ........................................................................................... 171
10. Degrading a Muslim.................................................................................................................... 171
11. Priding on lineages ...................................................................................................................... 172
Lights from the Islamic civilization ...................................................................................................... 172
Freedom ................................................................................................................................................ 172
1. The freedom of religion ................................................................................................................ 172
2. The freedom of thought................................................................................................................. 174
3. Civil freedom ................................................................................................................................ 174
Governors and officials ......................................................................................................................... 175
The task of governors ........................................................................................................................ 175
The Prophet’s covenant to governors ................................................................................................ 175
The Prophet’s covenant to Mu’ath .................................................................................................... 176
The second narration: ........................................................................................................................ 176
Deposing of governors ...................................................................................................................... 177
The salaries of officials ..................................................................................................................... 178
The Prophet’s deputies .......................................................................................................................... 179
1. To Khosrau .................................................................................................................................... 180
2. To Caesar ...................................................................................................................................... 181
3. To al-Muqawqas ........................................................................................................................... 183
Al-Muqawqas with a delegation from Thaqif ................................................................................... 185
4. To Negus ....................................................................................................................................... 186
5. To the King of Ghassan ................................................................................................................ 187
6. To the king of Yamama ................................................................................................................ 188
7. To the kings of Oman.................................................................................................................... 189
8. To the people of Hajar .................................................................................................................. 190
9. To al-Munthir bin al-Harith .......................................................................................................... 190
His letters to the notables ...................................................................................................................... 190
Aktham bin Sayfi .............................................................................................................................. 190
Ziyad bin Jumhoor ............................................................................................................................ 191
The delegations to the Prophet .............................................................................................................. 192
Education .............................................................................................................................................. 194
Education of women ............................................................................................................................. 195
The house of hospitality ........................................................................................................................ 196
The Islamic economy ............................................................................................................................ 197
1. The encouraging of agriculture ..................................................................................................... 197
2. The encouraging of labor .............................................................................................................. 198
3. The forbidding of usury ................................................................................................................ 198
4. The prohibition of cheating ........................................................................................................... 198
5. The prohibition of monopoly ........................................................................................................ 199
6. The watch of the market................................................................................................................ 199
7. Taxes ............................................................................................................................................. 199
8. The zakat of monies ...................................................................................................................... 199
9. The Khums .................................................................................................................................... 200
10. The government’s responsibility ................................................................................................. 200
The change of the qibla to the Kaaba .................................................................................................... 200
The Prophet consults with his companions ........................................................................................... 200
The Prophet’s scribes ............................................................................................................................ 201
The Prophet’s seal ................................................................................................................................. 202
The political document ......................................................................................................................... 202
Examples from the Prophet’s supplications ......................................................................................... 207
The benefits of Du’a ............................................................................................................................. 207
Those whose du’a is responded to ........................................................................................................ 208
1. The wronged ................................................................................................................................. 208
2. The father’s supplication for his children ..................................................................................... 209
3. One’s prayer for his brother .......................................................................................................... 209
4. The prayer of one who is far away for another who is far away ................................................... 209
5. The prayer of an afflicted believer ................................................................................................ 209
6. The supplication at affection ......................................................................................................... 209
7. The supplication of one who is done good to ............................................................................... 209
8. The Muslim’s prayer for his Muslim brother ................................................................................ 210
9. Answered supplications ................................................................................................................ 210
10. Supplications that are not rejected .............................................................................................. 210
Supplications that are not responded to ................................................................................................ 210
The best of du’as ................................................................................................................................... 211
1. Abundance of livelihood at old-age .............................................................................................. 211
2. The fear of Allah ........................................................................................................................... 211
3. Gratefulness and patience ............................................................................................................. 211
4. Doing good .................................................................................................................................... 211
5. Bliss in this life ............................................................................................................................. 211
6. Good end ....................................................................................................................................... 211
7. Protection ...................................................................................................................................... 212
8. Resurrection with the poor ............................................................................................................ 212
9. Reconciliation ............................................................................................................................... 212
10. Sound faith and life ..................................................................................................................... 212
11. Help at dying ............................................................................................................................... 212
12. Forgiveness ................................................................................................................................. 212
13. Best qualities ............................................................................................................................... 213
14. Fear of Allah ............................................................................................................................... 213
15. Seeking soundness ...................................................................................................................... 213
16. More knowledge ......................................................................................................................... 213
17. Good qualities ............................................................................................................................. 214